Local Government (Expenses of Local Authority Members) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 2024
• Citation: IR SI 283/2024

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

S.I. No.283of2024

Local Government (Expenses of Local Authority Members) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

I, ALAN DILLON, Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 4, 142 and 143 (as amended by section 53 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 (No.1 of 2014)) of the Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37 of 2001) and the Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2024 ( S.I. No. 234 of 2024) and with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (pursuant to the Ministers and Secretaries Acts 1924 to 2020) hereby order as follows:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Expenses of Local Authority Members) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.

2. The Local Government (Expenses of Local Authority Members) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 313 of 2021) are hereby amended by:

(a) the substitution of the following for regulation 6:

“6. (1) Except in any year where local elections are held, an amount of not more than €5,160 per annum is payable to a member in respect of eligible expenses (other than expenses provided for elsewhere in these Regulations) which the member is obliged to incur in the performance of his or her duties as a member, and where evidence in the form of vouchers or receipts is available to show that the expenses were incurred, except for an amount of not more than €80 per month which may be used for incidental expenditure without evidence in the form of vouchers or receipts.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), where in any year a person is a member of a local authority for a period less than the full year, the maximum annual amount of the local representation allowance payable to that member shall be reduced, and calculated on a pro rata basis.

(3) A local authority shall decide, by the end of the calendar year, to pay the vouched portion of this allowance to councillors in the following year:

(a) in arrears, on the basis of vouched expenditure made in advance of payment and subject to the provision of evidence of such expenditure as required in such directions as the Minister may give under Regulation 17, up to a maximum of €350 per month; or,

(b) in advance of expenditure, in anticipation of the subsequent provision of appropriate evidence of expenditure incurred at such intervals as stipulated in such directions as the Minister may give...